Ever since the past one week, I have been beta testing the upcoming “Legendary” version of Hahlo, the twitter web-client from Dean J Robinson. The new version, Hahlo 3 is even better than the native twitter clients that are currently available for the iPhone.

However, once I signed up for the beta, I realized there was an issue I was facing. Hahlo was unable to remember my settings or even my username / password for twitter. Soon enough, I realized that the issue was due to a bug in some iPhones / iPod touches with firmware version 1.1.4. The phones do not save cookies correctly. Here’s how to fix the issue:

Make sure you iPhone is in the same WiFi network as your computer.

Now, there are two ways to resolve the issue.

A: Using an FTP client. ( CyberDuck / Transmit / Flow )

1) Using the (S)FTP client, connect to your iPhone using the username as root and password as alpine. Make sure you connect using port 22 ( Secure FTP ) and NOT port 21.

2) Navigate to /var/mobile/Library/ and set the permissions of the “Cookies” folder in it too 777. Also do the same for all files inside the Cookies folder.

B: Using Terminal.

1) SSH into your iPhone via your Terminal ( Putty for Windows ). Password, ofcourse is “alpine”.

2) Issue the following command.
[code]chown -R mobile /var/mobile/

Thanks to Google for the help.

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